Dr. Scilla Elworthy
Position
Founder The Business Plan for Peace
Contact
Books
The Business Plan for Peace
Pioneering The Possible
Film
TED talk on non violence (viewed by over 1,200,000 people)
Dr Scilla Elworthy turns vision into action: three times nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for developing effective dialogue between nuclear weapons policy-makers worldwide and their critics, with the Oxford Research Group founded in 1982.
Peace Direct goes from strength to strength under brilliant young leadership, founded by Scilla in 2002 to fund, promote and learn from local peace-builders in conflict areas. Scilla was adviser to Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Sir Richard Branson in setting up ‘The Elders’, and was Awarded the Niwano Peace Prize in 2003.
Today her full attention is on developing Business Plan for Peace resulting from her 2017 book The Business Plan for Peace: Building a World Without War.
Her TED talk on non violence has been viewed by over 1,400,000 people on TED and YouTube.